TIME TO ACT
Trained and mentored hundreds of professional actors
Played lead roles in many of Musical Theatre’s seminal productions
Former Head of Acting of ArtsEd’s flagship Musical Theatre course
MA In Actor Training and Coaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Lead Audition Panellist on many of UK’s most significant acting programs
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STUDENTS
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Getting Into Drama School
For the past 10 years I have regularly led and moderated the demanding audition processes that identify and ultimately invite talented students into their actor training adventure at the highest level.
I want to help you identify, recognise, understand and traverse those challenges effectively and as enjoyably and successfully as possible.
I’ll provide ongoing support and coaching throughout the exacting and diverse processes and pressures, helping you to map and navigate your best pathway.
With a raft of different demands from the individual colleges and schools, it’s key that you are able keep track and maintain focus to respond to each new stage with clarity and confidence .
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Get Ready For Drama School
Year in and out I watch students arrive and miss valuable opportunities whilst coming to grips with the move from the culture of traditional education to vocational training.
It’s telling how often students arriving direct from a foundation/preparatory training immediately thrive and grow.
Put simply - they know how to work and what matters.I can help you position your practice and understanding so that the crossing is calm, effective and satisfying.
Too often students reach halfway through their first year (and longer) and their feet/approaches are still in mid-air.
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Stepping Into The Industry
Structuring an all purpose repertoire and developing your work in the audition or rehearsal room could be the difference between a ‘thank you’ and ‘please pepare this’ - An ‘it was lovely meeting you’ or a ‘what are you doing in November?’
Actively and reflexively working on your process and responding critically to your early forays into professional scenarios can be hugely informative and telling.
Having a strong, adaptable portfolio at your daily fingertips will get you through the hectic pace when demands are coming from all directions. The second, third and further choices in an audition or rehearsal scenario can be a spikey, but telling path…
PROFESSIONALS
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Audition Preparation and Coaching
Whether it’s the last minute response to an overnight appointment or navigating the to and fro of an extended audition process, the calm informed eye of an acting coach makes an enormous difference.
Solo Voice /Monologue/Acting Through Song inhabit a special space at the core of my work as an Acting Trainer/Coach and Director and are key forms that I have been actively examining and challenging for decades.
Having sat on the other side of the table regularly for the past decade, I have the 360 degree perspective to make a real difference to your experience and readiness.
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Ongoing Training and Skill Development
An artistic vocation/career, at its healthiest, is an ever flexing and regularly morphing scenario. Response to changes in the industry, personal curiosities, fresh arenas or challenges are a constant.
Keeping your understanding and toolkit alive and relevant is paramount. Identifying and enriching your strengths and developmental needs is an area of personal and professional passion.
Advance your expertise, tune your toolkit, update your understanding or even tackle old mysteries, but most importantly, continue to evolve and remain relevant. An artist thrives on a combination of challenge and curiosity. I want to help you to stay ‘fit’ and be the sharpest and most available version of yourself.
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Bespoke Coaching/Tutoring
It may be a case of needing a regular acting workout to keep your acting juices flowing, preparing for a tricky role or new challenging style or performance framing.
Dancers habitually return to their teachers for guidance, reframing and correction throughout their career. They prepare for specific challenges roles and projects in collaboration with an external coach/guide.
Singers, equally spend time with their teacher, coming to an understanding and courting mastery of the material/challenges ahead.
Why not Actors?
Directors are, by nature, diverse and individual and shouldn’t be expected to teach. The nuts and bolts of text, character preparation and role development are as crucial as the steps/notes.
That is where I come in…
